Like many of you, I read the news of a single person killing at least 20 people in El Paso, Texas yesterday and another person kil | Continue reading
In 1959, physicist Richard Feynman, who had already done work that would win him the Nobel Prize a few years later, gave a talk | Continue reading
Well this was fun! I'm not sure to which degree readers realize how much work goes into a week of kottke.org, and I'm sure Jason | Continue reading
Since it's quite hard to study the sun, "a team of researchers decided to try to re-create the sun's magnetic field structu | Continue reading
We often talk about the damage we are doing to nature, and as often about the catastrophes this is bringing across the globe. An | Continue reading
Amidst all the calls for more ethics and considerations for social issues on the part of tech companies, this looks like quite an | Continue reading
Interested in gaming? Old-school 80s-90s games? NES? Chinese shenzhen-speed recombination and innovation? Then I've got the thre | Continue reading
If you are old enough, you probably have fond memories of the kids' drawing toy, Spirograph. Actually, they still exist but I'm | Continue reading
The AI SpaceFactory team won half a million dollars from NASA for its Mars habitat prototype, MARSHA. They are now taking the re | Continue reading
Ok. So the book is from a few years ago and, like me, you might be suffering from a light case of UBI (Universal Basic Income) fat | Continue reading
Paul Hawken's Project Drawdown "is the world's leading source of climate solutions." In the list of solutions, perhaps | Continue reading
I did not know about these wonderful places. For hundreds of years, families in Mauritania have been maintaining libraries of ol | Continue reading
You may remember a few years ago when a video about Google's Project Soli made the rounds, it promised very fine touchless gestu | Continue reading
Somewhat as a continuation to the previous post on journalism, which included a call to "look at people and how they use the | Continue reading
Jeff Jarvis with some good comments (based primarily on a paper by Axel Bruns) arguing that the media in general needs to start wi | Continue reading
Lovely story of a Tokyo security guard who's enhancing his guidance work through constructions sites with some fantastic custom | Continue reading
The transformation of (a lot of) the internet into simply a larger, more diversified series of tv channels continues apace. Sharin | Continue reading
It's always interesting to see how people feel about books. Some don't read them, some always have one in hand, even walking. So | Continue reading
One of the very few productivity tips I trust 100% (ok, probably the only one) is the recommendation for getting up and walking | Continue reading
This one is a super short article about a deep sea encounter between the Nautilus research vessel and a rare piglet squid. Beaut | Continue reading
It's sometimes easy to think that we know how most things work, especially those that surround us and we take for granted. Truth | Continue reading
I've always liked the concept of serendipity, even more since being involved in the early days of coworking, where we used the ter | Continue reading
Gorgeous work by a Polish illustrator working in Japan. Originally found him through this page about his Tokyo storefronts book, | Continue reading
Incredibly (I guess), I've never played Fortnite. I have however been paying some attention to the game / platform, but it still | Continue reading
This is the collision of two interesting "topic fields" I like to pay attention to. China in general, especially how med | Continue reading
This is a fun one; over at The Takeout, they did a fantasy draft where each of the writers picked his/her favorite supermarket bee | Continue reading
It's nothing new for people who built tools to later have remorse when seeing those tools abused. Sometimes that remorse is world- | Continue reading
I superficially resemble Chuck Klosterman -- we're redheaded dudes with glasses and beards -- but wouldn't call myself a fan. I've | Continue reading
For Out magazine, Michelle Garcia profiles track star Caster Semenya.Immediately after that mind-blowing 800-meter final at th | Continue reading
Alan Taylor of In Focus has curated a selection of photos taken during the first few days after Disneyland was opened to the publi | Continue reading
Music pioneer Fab 5 Freddy is most well-known for hosting the seminal Yo! MTV Raps, but his earliest public attention came because | Continue reading
I know this probably isn't brand new, but in the past couple of weeks I've noticed a few articles published by big media companies | Continue reading
Archaeologists are increasingly looking past the splashy artifacts of ancient elites to seek & find the dwellings and possessi | Continue reading
From The New Humanitarian, a mid-year update on 10 humanitarian trends and crises to watch in 2019 (here's their initial post). Th | Continue reading
From the BBC, a list of the 101 people, ideas, and things changing how we work today. I pulled out a few of things I thought were | Continue reading
Last year, music software company Ableton gave music producers a challenge: take an 8-second sample of audio and make a track out | Continue reading
Indiewire is early out of the gate with their list of the 100 best movies of the decade, betting that anything coming out in the n | Continue reading
Harriet is a biopic about freedom fighter Harriet Tubman coming out in November. Tubman is played by Cynthia Erivo, who looked s | Continue reading
Heinrich C. Berann's panoramic paintings of US National Parks aren't just art and aren't just maps but sit somewhere delightfu | Continue reading
50 years ago, the Sony TC-50 cassette player and recorder accompanied the Apollo 11 crew to the Moon and back. (Here's what they | Continue reading
I read four things recently that are all related in some way to our cities and how we get around in them.1. Was the Automotive E | Continue reading
From Outside magazine, an article on what your body goes through and what it feels like to die from heat stroke. A perhaps unneces | Continue reading
The Andrews brothers travel the world taking overhead drone photos that they offer as prints on their site Abstract Aerial Art. I | Continue reading
Well, this trailer for A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood is our first look at Tom Hanks playing Fred Rogers and, hmm. I dunno. | Continue reading
I was away this weekend at a family function and mostly without internet access, so I didn't get to watch the coverage of the Moon | Continue reading
Here I was, flying along fat, dumb, and happy (like my dad used to say), not really wanting or needing any more The Next Generat | Continue reading
You've heard by now that it's the 50th anniversary of the first humans landing on the Moon. On July 20, 1969, 50 years ago today | Continue reading
The Simpsons has never exactly portrayed its characters in a flattering light, but this version of the show's title sequence rei | Continue reading